Introduction to ‘Numerical Generalization in Cartography’

GENERALIZATION In 1907, Dr. Max Eckert read a paper entitled, 'On the Nature of Maps and Map Logic,' before the German Geographical Meeting in Nuremberg. In this seminal paper Eckert identified two types of maps: topographic maps, also called chorographic and survey, and their antithesis, which he termed 'geographically abstract' maps. Geographically abstract maps present, in cartographic form, the results of scientific induction and deduction which includes all general economic, commercial, statistical, ethnographic, population, and physical maps. Eckert also felt these abstract maps, owing to their nature, were usually drawn to small scale. Eckert used this basic classification to discuss the role of 'art' in cartography. Precisely, Eckert stated

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• Raster-Mode Area Generalization for Land Use and Land Cover Maps

  Mark Monmonier, Mark Stephen Monmonier•Cartographica The International…•1983

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• In The Matter Of Class Intervals For Choropleth Maps

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• On the Nature of Maps and Map Logic

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• Semiology of Graphics

  J Ronald Eastman, Jacques Bertin•Economic Geography•1986

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